implement a language module to support syntax coloring and/or function navigation for a source code language not presently supported by BBEdit

Edit in BBEdit

In order to facilitate the use of BBEdit as an external editor for various applications, we have devised (with the assistance of UserLand Software , the “ODB Editor Suite” (so called because its original purpose was to provide for editing text objects in the Frontier Object Database, or ODB).

The ODB Editor Suite is a proprietary standard, but documentation is now publicly available for those who wish to implement an “Edit in BBEdit” command in their application. (Many file transfer clients, such as Fetch and Interarchy, currently support the ODB editor suite, but its utility is by no means limited to those sorts of applications.)

Language Modules

If you are a language designer (or fan!) and would like BBEdit customers to be able to utilize BBEdit’s syntax coloring, language-aware folding, function navigation, and completion services while editing source files written in your language, we encourage you to include a language module with your product.

Language module development information is available in the BBEdit SDK, which may be downloaded here.

Note: If you are planning to develop and ship language modules, we recommend using at least BBEdit 10.0, which mandates Unicode-aware language modules, and requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later (and thus relieves you of needing to support the `ppc` architecture).